Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England) back issues from March 2007:
Legends in flypast.
Mar 01, 2007 ... THREE planes that helped win the second world war are to take part in a fly-past at the Yorkshire Air Museum. The Lancaster, Hurricane and Spitfire will take part in the opening day of the two-day Battlegroup North show on May 12 at the museum near York. ...
Phew you looking at?
Mar 01, 2007 ... A YORKSHIRE vet faced his most extraordinary challenge when a customer brought in a sick skunk and a mauled meerkat. The skunk had an infected eye which had to be removed. And the meerkat then had then tip of its tail bitten by a parrot. Rothwell, Leeds, ...
Thousands sign petition for affordable homes.
Mar 01, 2007 ... CAMPAIGNERS for new affordable housing in Leeds are handing over a petition calling on Leeds City Council to boost its homes stock. Leeds Tenants Federation will present more than 3,000 signatures and a 6ft pledge card to Coun Les Carter, executive member for neighbourhoods and ...
Mums join forces on anti-gun DVD.
Mar 01, 2007 ... LEEDS mothers who lost loved ones to violence have helped record a powerful anti-gun DVD. Pat Regan, Lorraine Fraser and Maureen Miller, all of whom lost sons to the bullet or the blade, joined bereaved parents from across the UK as part of Mothers Against Violence's ongoing ...
'Let Corrie stars get on their soap boxes'.
Mar 01, 2007 ... SOAP operas should break their last taboo and help people to engage in politics, according to a Leeds academic. Professor Stephen Coleman, pictured, of Leeds University spent four months analysing four soaps - Coronation Street, EastEnders, Hollyoaks and The Archers. ...
Emmerdale beauty.
Mar 01, 2007 ... Hello petal. Emmerdale cutie Sammy Winward recreates the iconic pose from the film American Beauty which made actress Mena Suvari an international pin-up. But as she is fronting Marie Curie Cancer Care's annual Daffodil Appeal, launched today, she is lying in a sea ...
Officer to take on new role.
Mar 01, 2007 ... WEST Yorkshire Police Force's new Crime Reduction Officer is Detective Inspector Duncan MacNay. Det Insp MacNay began his career with West Yorkshire Police in 1979 and has worked mainly on uniform patrol within Leeds North East Division. He spent two years as a Crime ...
Sax player promises sound and vision.
Mar 01, 2007 ... Saxophonist, educator and composer Andy Scott is bringing his multimedia projects, My Mountain Top and Summer with Monika to The Venue, Leeds, later this month. My Mountain Top sees Scott joined by regular duo partner percussionist Dave Hassell and actor Richard Ellis as they ...
3,000 join Jane's run for starters.
Mar 01, 2007 ... POLICE from Leeds are set to pound a very different beat - Jane Tomlinson's Run For All. Around 20 officers from Rothwell, where Jane lives, have signed up to take on the 10km challenge. The team, led by Sgt Paul Dennison, often see cancer sufferer Jane running ...
Protest over 'bigger BP garage' plan.
Mar 01, 2007 ... PLANS to expand a petrol filling station into a super-garage with a mini supermarket met an angry storm of protest from campaigners in Moortown, Leeds. Residents near Moortown Corner's double roundabouts and BP garage on Harrogate Road say the area is already badly congested, ...
Festival firms will come to the cabaret.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A GALA cabaret dinner will launch the 2007 Harrogate International Festival. Rudding Park will welcome a multitude of Yorkshire business heavyweights to the March 8 event sponsored by Deloitte & Touche. PriceWaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Lupton Fawcett, Yorkshire Water and ...
Man killed in hit-and-run is named.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A 75-year-old man killed in a hit-andrun accident in Knaresborough has been named as William Hendry, who lived in the town. He died at Harrogate District Hospital after he was knocked over on Stockwell ...
'Peace Jam' at university.
Mar 01, 2007 ... YOUNGSTERS from four Leeds schools will meet a campaigning Nobel Peace Prize winner at a Yorkshire event. Nobel prizewinner Jody Williams was honoured in 1997 for her work against land mines. Bradford University is hosting the "Peace Jam" this weekend. Youngsters ...
Award joy for caring volunteers.
Mar 01, 2007 ... Recognition for club that helps the disabled enjoy full and varied lives VOLUNTEERS in Leeds have been awarded an HRH Duke of York's Community Initiative Award for their dedicated care and support of disabled people for more than 35 years. The award, which The Duke ...
Zero tolerance paves way for cleaner streets.
Mar 01, 2007 ... THE streets of central Leeds are no longer strewn with litter as the campaign to clean up the city's act bites. A tour of the city centre found pavements and roads no longer covered in paper, sweet wrappings and other rubbish. Though chewing gum and cigarette ends are a nuisance ...
Spitting and racial jibes on the last bus.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A PASSENGER on a Leeds bus made racist remarks and spat at the driver who queried his ticket. The incident on Monday, November 13, last year, occurred when the driver was taking the last service from Seacroft to Bramley. A man boarded the bus on Nippet Lane, ...
Cabbie attack duo still at large.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A TAXI driver was attacked and robbed of his cab by two men in Wakefield in the early hours. The driver picked up the two fares in the city centre on Saturday, August 19, last year. The men directed him to take them to the Kirkhamgate district. When the ...
Shilpa may swap Bollywood for Ilkley Moor.
Mar 01, 2007 ... BOLLYWOOD star Shilpa Shetty is rumoured to be in talks to shoot a new movie in Yorkshire. According to a national newspaper, Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa is being lined up to star in the comedy Quick Slip me a Bride. The 31-year-old is discussing the ...
Getaway Day in aid of city hospitals.
Mar 01, 2007 ... TEAMS of Yorkshire businesses will try to get away from it all tomorrow - with no cash. They're taking part in the Big Getaway Day, a fundraising drive for cancer services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Starting in Victoria Gardens at 10am tomorrow, the teams of between ...
Search for the Romans... at Leeds school.
Mar 01, 2007 ... ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been hunting for signs that the Romans once occupied the site of a north Leeds school. They have been surveying fields around the tennis courts of Allerton High School, in King Lane, where there might have been a marching camp. The site is shown ...
Book project on shortlist for award.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A LEEDS library scheme that provides large print books for partially-sighted children has been nominated for a national award. The LARGE - Leeds Always Reading Group for Everyone - service provides loans of ...
Casino plan for pay out ahead of smoke ban.
Mar 01, 2007 ... BOSSES at a Leeds casino are staking [pounds sterling]6,000 on a smoking shed for customers ahead of the nationwide ban on smoking that comes into force in July. The Grosvenor Casino in Merrion Way, has applied to build the 6m by 6m aluminium structure before the Government ban ...
Kaisers confirmed for Harewood gig.
Mar 01, 2007 ... THEY'RE coming home, they're coming home - the Chiefs are coming home! Chart-topping rockers Kaiser Chiefs will be playing a massive show in their native Leeds this summer, it was announced today. They are on the bill for the 30,000-capacity northern leg of the O2 ...
[pounds sterling]10,000 grant to improve hall.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A scheme to improve Great Preston village hall has been boosted by a [pounds sterling]10,000 grant. The funding from Leeds City Council's outer east area committee will be used for a new central heating system, new flooring and modernisation of the kitchen Cash ...
'You're guaranteed a job, their exact words'.
Mar 01, 2007 ... It is not so long since the NHS declared a "nursing crisis" - even shipping in staff from overseas. Now, cost-cutting means scores of new nurses from Leeds find themselves unable to get a job. MUM-of-two Janet Clark sold her home to put herself through university after being ...
Abuse and aggression as Yorks mercy crews attend patients.
Mar 01, 2007 ... YORKSHIRE ambulance crews have told of the verbal and physical abuse they face while doing their job. Since July, 2006, there have been 230 incidents of violence and aggression towards frontline workers from Yorkshire Ambulance Service. Three people since then have ...
Victims of hate crime get the chance to voice their views.
Mar 01, 2007 ... VICTIMS of hate crime are to get a chance to ask members of the criminal justice system what is being done to tackle the problem at a meeting in Leeds. West Yorkshire community leaders and other interested groups have been invited to a question and answer session organised by ...
Battler wants action on tax.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A LEEDS MP who led a Parliamentary fight for justice for asbestos victims has called for a windfall tax on insurance companies to fund compensation. John Battle's Leeds West constituiency includes the community of Armley, location of the notorious J W Roberts asbestos factory ...
Ceremony highlights asbestos victims.
Mar 01, 2007 ... RED and black balloons were released in Leeds city centre to mark the victims of deadly asbestos-related diseases. About 40 people attended the event, in Dortmund Square, which was part of national Action Mesothelioma Day. At the Leeds event, organised by the Ridings ...
Clothes spark flat blaze.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A BLAZE started when clothes were left on top of a gas fire in a first-floor Scarborough flat at 4am today. One resident tackled the fire in the lounge with an extinguisher and was taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. ...
Man plunged to death from window.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A MAN plunged to his death from the window of his flat in Wakefield. Wakefield Coroner's Court heard that 40-year-old Christopher Lund lived alone at the flat at St Michael's House, Horbury Road, Wakefield. On the evening of February 24, just before 9pm, residents ...
Student, 20, dies after being shot in the head.
Mar 01, 2007 ... DETECTIVES are trying to find a motive after a student shot in the head in an apparently random attack died in hospital. Skander Habib Rehman, 20, was found with a single gunshot wound to the head in Brackenhill Park, Horton Bank, Bradford, on Monday morning. Police said there ...
Sat-track speeding car curb sparks new fear.
Mar 01, 2007 ... Motoring groups expressed concern today about a possible Government plan to install satellite tracking systems in cars to curb speeding drivers. Trials of a scheme are taking place at Leeds University and involve black-box transmitters in cars to monitor driving and record any ...
Schools and businesses greet Princess Royal on her triple-town tour.
Mar 01, 2007 ... THE Princess Royal visited three West Yorkshire towns yesterday. She called at Swift Research in Wetherby which is celebrating 21 years in business. She officially opened a new centre at the company where research and sensory tests are carried out on behalf of some of ...
Yorks map pioneer's work up for auction.
Mar 01, 2007 ... AN EXTREMELY rare copy of a map made by a pioneering surveyor from Wakefield in the 16th century is expected to fetch more than [pounds sterling]500,000 at auction later this month. The copy of one of the first printed atlases of England and Wales by "the father of English ...
'Sat-navs' make life misery for Yorkshire village.
Mar 01, 2007 ... LORRIES are bringing chaos to a Yorkshire village - because satellite navigation systems think its high street is the A1 motorway. Residents in Micklefield, a former mining community to the east of Leeds, are being disrupted at all hours since the popularity of sat-navs soared ...
Cancer mum escapes jail for drug dealing.
Mar 01, 2007 ... A young mum who was caught dealing drugs from her West Yorkshire home was spared jail after a court heard how she did it to pay for her skin cancer treatment. Andrienne Holdgate, 26, admitted possession with intent to supply ecstasy and amphetamines after a police raid on her ...
New nurses told: No Jobs.
Mar 01, 2007 ... MUM-of-two Janet Clark sold her home to put herself through university after being told the NHS was "crying out for nurses". Three years on, after qualifying as a children's specialist, she has been told it might all have been a waste of time and money. Janet is ...
Let's drink to health in the Third World.
Mar 01, 2007 ... Buy bar's Fairtrade beers and help poor countries ENJOYING a tipple in a Leeds bar could help people in some of the world's poorest countries. In January North Bar in New Briggate in the heart of Leeds added Fairtrade drinks to its large stock of alcoholic and organic ...
Role of the dice may be crucial to city's fate.
Mar 01, 2007 ... LEEDS is on the shortlist of cities that could become the next Monopoly board game. It is in competition with Lincoln, Sheffield and York. All four northern cities have caught the eye and imagination of London Monopoly chiefs, who are busy eyeing up potential ...
Cheap handbags warning after raids on top store.
Mar 01, 2007 ... Police want to know if you're offered designer item at a bargain price POLICE today warned the public to be on their guard if offered cheap designer handbags stolen from a Leeds top store. The same gang of burglars is believed to have struck three times at the ...
Full metal racket.
Mar 01, 2007 ... Neighbours fuming over noise from 'iron curtain' IT USED to be the public space that brought a glimpse of green into life on an east Leeds estate. But now, when people living in Swarcliffe open their curtains they are faced with their very own iron curtain. ...
Prince visits Leeds' Carriageworks.
Mar 01, 2007 ... LEEDS was honoured with a right royal visit today as HRH Prince Edward Earl of Wessex stopped by for a tour of the city's newest theatre. The Prince was at the Carriageworks Theatre on Millennium Square today as part of a whirlwind tour of the area. The Prince ...
Father of murdered student urges DNA test.
Mar 01, 2007 ... The father of a British student murdered in France nearly 17 years ago today called on police to carry out DNA tests following a major setback in his bid to win justice for his daughter. Trainee teacher Joanna Parrish, 21, who was a year out from Leeds University, was found ...
Advice for drivers with cars damaged by dodgy petrol.
Mar 02, 2007 ... A CONSUMER watchdog has flashed a warning to motorists who fear they may be caught up in the petrol contamination scandal. A significant number of complaints have been made by drivers claiming to have had problems after buying petrol. Now consumer watchdog Which? is ...
Council spent [pounds sterling]15mon consultancy fees.
Mar 02, 2007 ... LEEDS City Council has paid out over [pounds sterling]15m on consultants fees over the last three years. And now senior councillors have vowed to introduce tighter controls on the use of consultancy firms as part of efforts to increase the amount of cash spent on frontline ...
Celebrate your city with a photo.
Mar 02, 2007 ... LEEDS residents are being asked to submit photographs illustrating what the city means to them as it celebrates its 800th year. As part of the Celebrate Leeds 2007 festival, students from Leeds Metropolitan University's UK Centre for Events Management are working in conjunction ...
Graduates of the call centre.
Mar 02, 2007 ... A TELEPHONE call centre training scheme is setting the right tone in helping unemployed people get back into work. The first group of people recruited through the scheme to fill vacancies at Leeds City Council's customer contact centre have graduated from their training. ...
Traffic jam fear over Elland Road project.
Mar 02, 2007 ... A LEEDS neighbourhood could be hit by more traffic and parking problems if plans to create a leisure quarter in Elland Road go ahead, fears a councillor. Leeds City Council recently revealed a masterplan for the area around Elland Road football stadium in Beeston, setting out a ...
Lottery grant means disabled can make a movie.
Mar 02, 2007 ... Disabled people from Hunslet have come up trumps on the Lottery and are to make their own DVD. Moor End People's Committee, based at Moor End Day Services in Hunslet, have been handed [pounds sterling]9,900 from the Big Lottery Fund's Awards for All scheme. Committee ...
Gerald puts his shirt on footballers.
Mar 02, 2007 ... AS a callow youth growing up on the streets of Hunslet pensioner Gerald Fitzpatrick was no stranger to hardship. So decades later when the 87-year-old war hero saw an appeal in the YEP to buy football shirts for a cash-strapped club in his old manor he had no hesitation in ...
Get your skates on.
Mar 02, 2007 ... PEOPLE keen to cut a dash on the ice in Leeds are advised to get their skates on as the YEP-sponsored Ice Cube closes on Sunday. This year's Ice Cube will end, as usual with the Meltdown Party, with summer-themed music and prizes, from 12-4pm. The last session of the season will ...
Fairtrade is top of Kaiser Chiefs' shopping list.
Mar 02, 2007 ... LIFE is rosy for Leeds band the Kaiser Chiefs as they revel in achieving their first number one single. But the band members also have other things on their mind - the welfare of thousands of workers in the developing world - as their new single Ruby sits comfortably at the top ...
Dog fight fear over stolen pet.
Mar 02, 2007 ... A LEEDS dog owner fears his two bull terriers may be used for fighting after they were stolen from his garden. The blue Staffordshire bulls - together worth more than [pounds sterling]3,000 - disappeared from the garden of the owner's home in Cardinal Crescent in Beeston in ...
Intrepid Polarexplorer challenge.
Mar 02, 2007 ... BUDDING young Polar explorers are being urged to volunteer for an Antarctic region expedition aboard an ice-breaker, following in the footsteps of the legendary Ernest Shackleton. The British Schools Exploring Society is looking for 12 volunteers, aged between 18 and 23, to take ...
A high old time for the 100 per centers.
Mar 02, 2007 ... THE sky really is the limit ...if you attend school every single day. Children with 100 per cent attendance were rewarded with a heady trip up the 322 steps to the clock tower at Leeds Town Hall. And there to greet them was the boss of Education Leeds. Not ...
Partnership helps get foot on property ladder.
Mar 02, 2007 ... A TRIPLE partnership launched in the West/North Yorkshire Golden Square Triangle of sky-high house prices is proving popular with house buyers aiming to get a foot on the property ladder. The triangle is a link-up by Harrogate Borough Council and the city councils of Leeds and ...
Slimmed-down Simmo's not half the clown he used to be.
Mar 02, 2007 ... CUSTARD-PIE-MUNCHING clown Simmo's comedy expanding waistline was good for business. Audiences loved the children's entertainer's 'happy fat man' persona and jokes about his ballooning weight had been part of the staple diet of his act at holiday camps across Yorkshire for 14 ...
Sharpe and Symons in ice-off.
Mar 02, 2007 ... FANS of TV's Dancing on Ice are being warned to brace themselves for a night of tough choices tomorrow. Leeds-based rivals Lee Sharpe and Emily Symons are 6/4 joint favourites to be given the boot from the latest round of the celebrity skating competition. And ...
Schoolboy found dead at home.
Mar 02, 2007 ... A MAN has been arrested after a 15-year-old 'model schoolboy' was found dead at his home in Wakefield in a suspected drugs tragedy. Gifted Wakefield City High School pupil Jonathan Higgins was found dead in the lounge at his home in Eastmoor, Wakefield, on Sunday morning. ...
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Mar 02, 2007 ... A 15-year-old described as a 'model schoolboy' was found dead in his bedroom in a suspected drugs tragedy. It is believed Jonathan Higgins took an ecstasy pill on Saturday night and died hours later at his home in Eastmoor, Wakefield. His family plan to visit his ...
Hospital 'for sale' stunt.
Mar 02, 2007 ... HEALTH workers will erect a giant "For Sale" sign outside Leeds General Infirmary tomorrow. The stunt is part of a nationwide day of action against hospital closures and privatisation of the National Health Service. Trades unions are organising events in London and ...
Court cases halted after fumes send jurors to sleep.
Mar 02, 2007 ... CRIMINAL cases have been disrupted amid fears that fumes from renovation work at Leeds Crown Court are causing jurors to fall asleep. Courtrooms were cleared by judges this week after fumes wafted in through air vents, leaving jurors, barristers and other staff unable to ...
Fans warned ahead of rugby match.
Mar 02, 2007 ... RUGBY league bosses are warning yobs to 'stay away or face arrest' ahead of Featherstone Rovers local derby cup home clash with Castleford Tigers this Sunday. Security is being stepped up after trouble flared when the two teams met at the Tigers ground in the first group stage ...
Operations suspended after death of patient.
Mar 02, 2007 ... EXCLUSIVE OPERATIONS at a privately-run NHS centre which treats people from Leeds have been suspended after a patient died. Some procedures at Eccleshill NHS Treatment Centre in north Bradford have been stopped while an investigation takes place into how they are ...